Good afternoon and thanks for stopping by for Shaker Saturday! I missed the last two weeks but I'm back! :) All week long I've been participating in the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and now that the hop has ended I'm in beverage card withdrawal! So for today's shaker card I decided to go with a ... View Post
Butterfly Reflections Ink: Woof or Meow?
Good morning! I'm over at Butterfly Reflections Ink today with four cards specifically created for dog and cat lovers! I'd love to hear what you think so head on over and check them out! Here's a sneak of one of the cat cards! ... View Post
Happy 1st Birthday Rogue!
With a houseful of rescued pets we tend to celebrate adoption days rather than pet birthdays...but that's primarily because we don't actually know the birthdays of our dogs or rabbit. We still don't know the exact date for Rogue but we've got a much firmer idea. We adopted her on June 20th and was ... View Post
Introducing Shaker Saturday, Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop, and a GIVEAWAY!
I've decided to fully embrace my obsession with shaker cards...and start a Shaker Saturday series! To get this series going I created a coffee-themed card for the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop! I wanted to challenge myself to make a shaker card with several compartments and I thought coffee, ... View Post
…that’s better…
Whew...okay, here's a better Valentine's Day card for my husband! Still had to add a little pink in there for the holiday but it's considerably more masculine than my first try! I used the fun Love 'N Breakfast set from Lawn Fawn to stamp the sentiment and shakers in Versafine Onyx Black and ... View Post
Avery Elle I Heart You Challenge #21: Masking
After I broke out the masking paper for my Lawnscaping cards I decided to go ahead and work on a card for the AEIHeartUChallenge. I realized that I've used the More Stories or Storybook stamps in every card I've previously entered in their challenges so I wanted to try something else! I've owned ... View Post
Virginia’s View Challenge #12
I was really excited to see that Virginia's View Challenge for February is shaker cards! I've been tossing around an idea for a shaker card in my head for the last few weeks and this finally gave me the incentive to figure it out! This was definitely not a fast or easy card but I'm glad I spent ... View Post
A new (to me) technique: paper-piecing…
I was intrigued by this month's AEIHeartUChallenge: Paper Piecing. It's not something I'd ever tried but it looked interesting. By far, my favorite Avery Elle stamp sets are Storybook and More Stories and I knew I wanted to use them in some way. I decided to try and give some of the animals the ... View Post